I understand that visually it looks weird when structures like this collapse. Everything looks like it’s made of twigs. The reality is, each component is a humongous piece of steel… supporting more humongous pieces of steel…. Spanning a river…. Meaning they aren’t just holding things up from underneath, but laterally as well. Extreme forces at play here while it’s at rest. And all of it is supporting a giant slab of concrete. Any catastrophic damage to a component is going to cascade through the rest.
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